Ghosters by Diana Corbitt

𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕧𝕖-𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣-𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕒 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕫’𝕤 𝕞𝕠𝕞 𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕪 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕔𝕖 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕞𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣’𝕤 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕪 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟. 𝕀𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕪, 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕟. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕠𝕨𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕕 𝕤𝕦𝕘𝕒𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕖’𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕜𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕤𝕦𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕗𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕔𝕦𝕡𝕓𝕠𝕒𝕣𝕕. ℂ𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕞𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕝𝕪 𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕟—𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕗𝕦𝕟 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕗𝕗 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕒’𝕤 𝕟𝕖𝕨 𝕘𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥-𝕠𝕓𝕤𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕂𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪. 𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕨, 𝔾𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤, 𝕚𝕤 𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕝 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘, 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕒 𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝔻𝕒𝕕’𝕤 𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕪 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕧𝕠𝕨𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕨𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥. 𝔸𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕁𝕠𝕖𝕪, 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝔸𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕣’𝕤, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝𝕤 𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕂𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪’𝕤 𝕘𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥-𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕖𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕡𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕔𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕫𝕖𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕤𝕠𝕠𝕟 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕘𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕚𝕡 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕕𝕤.

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Genre: Middle-grade | Thriller| Paranormal | Fiction

5 out of 5 stars!

YES! This is what I am talking about!

I don’t know about you but growing up I was ghost obsessed. Late on a Friday or Saturday night my family and friends would gather, turn off all the lights, grab a flashlight and creep around the house looking to experience the perfect paranormal moment.

I now get to experience all that same fun with my two boys. It becomes on heck of a great game, on the regular here in our home.

So… what better than a middle-grade where kids are doing just that?!? and they have no idea what they are in for.

When Diana reached out to see if I would be willing to review one of the books from her Ghosters series, I was super excited and I knew exactly who I would be reading it with.

I’ll just put it out there…. my eldest son and I LOVED this read.

Ghosters was exhilarating!

The characters are so well done. Theresa is suffering the older sibling battle after a huge loss in the family and feels she needs to stay strong for her younger brother Joey. Yet she also feels her Dad doesn’t seem to love her as much. When truly she and Joey just have no idea exactly what is going on with their father and his own inner demons he is fighting. Than Joey is this sweet, innocent, easy going brother who looks up to his sister and is so happy to spend time with her. In comes Theresa’s new ghost obsessed friend Kerry to stir up the mix. What a perfect selection of characters!

Diana also kept this middle grade read so gripping by leaving the true reveal till the very, very end. Leaving you to devour this read, needing to know exactly what happens.

Ghosters will have you stir with emotions throughout. Yet in the end Diana pieces everything together perfecting, bringing the whole story together and releasing all of those emotions.

I must add as a mother reading this along side my eldest that I found it very refreshing how Diana not only brought up the topic of loss of a loved one(s) but also notes some mental health. She did it in such a gentle, tasteful way, not to overwhelm a middle-grade reader.

Extremely well done and very entertaining.

We have added the rest of the Ghosters series onto our wish list to pick up in the future.

Currently in the series:

#1: Ghosters #2: Revenge of the Library Ghost #3: Secrets of the Bloody Tower #4: Ghosters go Camping.

Also please note, you do not need to read the series in order. So take a peak, read through the synopsis and see which one will be your first victim!

Enjoy! Happy reading.

Thank you so much Diana for sending us an e-copy to read and review.

We can’t wait to dive into more.

Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing

Release date: May 1, 2017

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your SPOOKED Book Worm

-Nichole

Better You Believe & Sour by Tony Evans

Better You Believe

𝕌𝕣𝕓𝕒𝕟 𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕤 – 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕥𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞. 𝕃𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕧𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕨𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕩𝕥.𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕒𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕥, 𝕥𝕠 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕. 𝕀’𝕧𝕖 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕡𝕡𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕟 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕤, 𝕕𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖, 𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕦𝕡? 𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕕𝕧𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕘𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕣 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤. 𝔸𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕝𝕝, 𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕊𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕒 𝕤𝕒𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕘𝕠𝕖𝕤 – 𝕄𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕖. 𝕄𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕖 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕖. 𝔹𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

Genre: Adult | Urban Legends | Horror | Paranormal

5 out of 5 stars!

Better You Believe is a collection of short stories. All urban legends Tony has come across over the years, while on his own adventures.

Nothing better than the perfect scary story as a kid. What we may not realise at that age, is a lot of the stories that have circled around come from urban legends our parents or family members have heard.

Tony not only brought attention to urban legends I myself had never heard of. He brought them to life, putting his own little spin on them. These are tales that will stick with me for a very long time, perhaps even for life.

These bizarre, creepy, strange stories are very fast paced and will leave you itching for more of each.

Some of the characters are so relate-able and you can’t help but feel emotions along side them, some of these myths will come across very cheeky, but know that there is a good life lesson to learn in each. So be sure to pay attention to the underlining message.

Tony’s writing is so enjoyable. No added filler, no drawn out sections, great story development, the characters are done really well and as I mentioned each story is very fast paced. You will fly through this collection in no time while being entertained the whole time, you may even be shocked by some of the twists that come along.

Yes! Of course I would recommend Better You Believe.

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Publisher: Independently Published

Date: February 11, 2019

NOW!

If Better You Believe sounds like something that would be right up your alley! Than you must check out Sour by Tony Evans

Sour

𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝔸𝕡𝕡𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕒, 𝕒 𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕦𝕣𝕜𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝔾𝕦𝕟𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜 ℍ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕣. 𝔸 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕚𝕤 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖, 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕙𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤.

𝕊𝕒𝕞 𝔽𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕗𝕖, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕥. 𝔸𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕝𝕝, 𝕒𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕗𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕝𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕕, 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕗𝕠𝕝𝕜𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕖… 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕒 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪.

𝔹𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕨𝕠 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕘𝕠, 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

Genre: Adult | Urban Legends | Horror | Paranormal

5 out of 5 stars!

Sour is a mix of some of the urban legends you may have read in “Better You Believe” all wrapped together in one perfect creepy bundle.

The moment I started to dive into Sour I thought… YES! This is it. I wanted more of these stories and I am getting just that.

Sam has to takes some drastic steps to try and rectify a huge loss after some very poor choices but again things may never be the same and might be better off just left alone.

I really enjoyed Sour, so happy I picked it up immediately after Better You Believe. It helped satisfy some of the thirst I had for more on these legends.

Again I would recommend Sour as well! I may even recommend reading them one after the other so everything is fresh in your mind….. Your welcome!

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I can’t wait to read more of Tony’s work!… Masterpieces.

Publisher: Independently Published

Date: October 19, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Myth of a Book Worm

-Nichole

The Beast of Bodmin by Mark Edmondson

𝕄𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕣 𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕥?

𝐉𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐨, 𝐎𝐂𝐃-𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬-𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐕𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐤 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫.

𝐉𝐨, 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐒𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞.

𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫, 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐤’𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞.

𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐭.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞?

*** Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

“𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓼 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓯𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝔂𝓽𝓱”

Genre: Adult | Psychological Thriller | Mystery | Thriller| Fiction

5 out of 5 stars!

The Beast of Bodmin was absolutely hair-raising!

Edmondson had me hooked from the very first page.

Thrillers are my jam!… but putting a spin on it like this, man or beast? What a ride! Knowing a murderer was on the loose was nerve wrecking enough. Not knowing if it was human or some hungry animal had you at the edge of your seat.

Not only is Mark’s writing so easily devoured but the story and characters were executed perfectly. Your main character, Jo had already been through so much which only made her stronger, while also showing her vulnerable side. Although Jo is about to go through SO much more! This creates the perfect protagonist for the reader. Someone you can truly relate with and start to gain some type of emotions for, causing you to become a bit anxious to see if Jo survives in the end.

The characters that surrounded and supported Jo were also so lovely. This novel is truly character driven in the best way possible.

I found myself constantly trying to crack the case while reading, getting into the true mindset of a detective. At times I truly felt I had figured out exactly who or what was committing these murders. Just as I got to that point there was a large plot twist! This was the real gem of this story! … The Beast of Bodmin never got boring!

This will be a favourite of mine for years to come.

Thank you so much Mark for sending me a copy.

Mark did not request that I review his book but of course I wanted to! So many great things to say.

Can’t wait to see what Mark Edmondson comes up with next!

Publisher: The Conrad Press

Release date: September 18, 2018

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Impressed Book Worm

-Nichole

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝐵𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒷𝓎 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝑒 𝐵𝒶𝓃𝓀𝓈

𝒯𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑒𝒹𝓎 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒞𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓇𝑒 𝒟𝓊𝒫𝑜𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝓊𝓈𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝓃 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀, 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃. 𝒪𝓃𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝓈𝒾𝓍 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓉𝒽𝓈 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓌𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒, 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒. 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓃𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓀𝓈 𝓊𝓅 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝒽𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓉𝒽𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒸𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓇𝑒𝒹. 𝐵𝑒𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓉 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓋𝒾𝓋𝒾𝒹, 𝒷𝒶𝒹 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝓃, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓁𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝓍𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂. 𝑅𝒶𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓋𝒾𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝒰𝓃𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓊𝓅, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓋𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓅 𝒶𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝓊𝓈𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒.

Genre: Adult | Psychological Thriller | Romantic Suspense | Fiction |

10 out of 5 stars! (Yes it’s that good)

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

The Moments Between is positively memorising!

Let me start by saying I have been an enormous fan of Natalie’s work for a couple years now. I have read nearly all of her published pieces and dare I say…I think this is her best yet. That comment alone says it all.

The Moments Between is an incredible concept and Natalie executed it perfectly. Truly gripping, yet notably warming. This is a novel you won’t want to put down but will also be terrified to see how it ends.

We’ve all experienced nightmares before but Claire’s nightmare goes beyond a sleepless night! Claire is constantly living in panic, desperate to find a way to keep her husband alive. This would be torment for anyone, let alone a mom of young kids. You will experience a explosion of multiple emotions throughout. One moment you will be in awe of the charming, incredibly relatable characters and the wonderful life they live. Next you will be holding your breath, pleading that everyone is safe.

If reading about this extraordinary family wasn’t enough, this story is packed full of strong underlining messages. For example; Claire and her sister are extremely different women, one is constantly infuriated by the other while also admiring her beauty. While the other is flat out jealous of the others life in a whole. This is where the message of “the grass is always greener on the other side” comes in. As they work through their differences it creates a stronger bond between the two that is so enjoyable. Claire also experiences such gut wrenching fears that leads her to ask a question that I am sure so many of us had wondered before “if God exists, why does he allow bad things to happen?”

I can’t help but feel that the positive moments throughout this read may be a tiny sneak peak into Natalie’s true life story.

Honestly I could go on and on with my thoughts of this book. You just need to read it! Perhaps this is the perfect read to end 2019 off with.

Thank you so much Natalie for sending me a e-copy to review. I cant help but devour everything you write. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.

Publisher: Champion Books

Release date: December 6, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Peaceful Book Worm

-Nichole

Your Move by Michelle Young

𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘋𝘌𝘈𝘋. 𝘚𝘏𝘌’𝘚 𝘕𝘌𝘟𝘛.
𝘞𝘏𝘖 𝘊𝘈𝘕 𝘚𝘏𝘌 𝘛𝘙𝘜𝘚𝘛?

𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙜𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙. 𝙎𝙝𝙚’𝙨 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙. 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧. 𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧? 𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩? 𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣, 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩. 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚. 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧—𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙, 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙞𝙩. 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙪𝙥 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

Genre: Adult | Psychological Thriller

5 out of 5 stars

A psychological thriller at its best!

Your Move is intense.

It will have you on the end of your seat and your heart pumping.

Michelle blew me away with her writing style, she did so many things right. Not only did she dedicate the perfect amount of time to the plot, really building the perfect layout for the story line but Your Move is also extremely character driven. It’s not easy to get that perfect delicate balance of both worlds but Michelle nailed it.

Your Move will keep you completely engrossed throughout the whole read. Just as you are getting comfortable and really feel you know where the story is going, Michelle throws you for a complete spiral.

Claire will experience memories of her past or the story may jump from present to the future, yet you don’t get a full view into Claire’s history and why she’s hiding. You get that perfect tidbit here and there… Just enough to keep you gripping on… wanting more.

I admired Claire’s strength! I also adored some of the relationships that started throughout this novel, so heart warming and a large piece of the story you will want to cling onto.

Your Move is everything I could ask for in a psychological thriller. It will really mess with your mind. Be prepared!

Thank you so much to Michelle Young for sending me this copy for review.

Michelle is a Canadian author of two poetry books, Salt & Light (2017) and Without Fear (2019). Your Move is her debut novel.

Published: September 5, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Courageous Book Worm

-Nichole

Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai

𝐼𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓁 𝒹𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒱𝒾ệ𝓉 𝒩𝒶𝓂 𝒲𝒶𝓇, 𝐻ằ𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝐿𝒾𝓃𝒽, 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉, 𝒹𝑒𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒶𝒻𝑒𝓉𝓎 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓂𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒶. 𝐼𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝓅𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒹, 𝐿𝒾𝓃𝒽 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓇𝓂𝓈—𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐻ằ𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓈 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓇-𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓃 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝓇𝓎.

𝒮𝒾𝓍 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇, 𝐻ằ𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝓊𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓎 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒱𝒾ệ𝓉 𝒩𝒶𝓂 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒾𝓃 𝒯𝑒𝓍𝒶𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓊𝑔𝑒𝑒. 𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈𝓃’𝓉 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓃 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉𝓈 𝐿𝑒𝑒𝑅𝑜𝓎, 𝒶 𝒸𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒷𝑜𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒷𝒾𝑔 𝓇𝑜𝒹𝑒𝑜 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈, 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝒽𝑒𝓇.

𝐻ằ𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝒿𝑜𝓎𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝐿𝒾𝓃𝒽. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒𝓈 𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈𝓃’𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎, 𝑜𝓇 𝒱𝒾ệ𝓉 𝒩𝒶𝓂, 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝓇𝓊𝓈𝒽𝑒𝒹. 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝓈 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇, 𝐻ằ𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝑜 𝒻𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒹𝑜 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝒶𝓅.

***Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

Genre: Young Adult | Historical Fiction

3 out of 5 stars

Butterfly yellow is a heavy story about the awful kidnappings that happened during the Vietnam War and sits close to home for Thanhha Lai herself. She fled Vietnam during the war with her family and ended up in Alabama, USA.

Knowing the concept of Butterfly Yellow sat so close to her personal life story, right away I thought I was going to be raving about this read.

Although the story is heart wrenching I didn’t enjoy it near as much as I thought I would. Which honestly breaks my heart to say and makes me feel awful, especially being such a raw look into true moments from the past and touching on awful moments that still happen to this day in some countries.

Butterfly Yellow had huge potential to be an extremely powerful story.

The first 70-80 pages of this book started off amazing with Hang finally reaching the US to find her brother, who she believed to still be in danger. But as Hang met LeeRoy a wonderful young man willing to help Hang in her desperate travels. The story started to fall apart. I found it very choppy and as if details were left out. I was finding myself having a hard time following what was happening, almost as if the plot needed more context. There were also added moments of drama that I felt didn’t need to be in this already overwhelming sad story.

I have heard raving reviews on Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again, which is written in verse. There were moments while reading Butterfly Yellow that I felt Lai was almost heading toward writing in that format. Maybe that would have brought this read to life for me….. I don’t know.

All this being said, Butterfly Yellow is not an awful novel and many would connect with it on a different level than I have.

I am not upset by any means that I read Butterfly Yellow. It brings attention to events that shouldn’t be ignored or forgotten and if history is an interest of yours at all, than I do suggest you give this one a go.

Thank you so much to HarperCollins Canada & HCC Frenzy for sending this arc my way for review.

Publisher: HarperCollins

Release date: September 3, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Heart Felt Book Worm

-Nichole

Kill River & Kill River 2 by Cameron Roubique

𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 & 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 2

ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴇʀ ᴏꜰ 1983, ᴛʜɪʀᴛᴇᴇɴ-ʏᴇᴀʀ-ᴏʟᴅ ᴄʏɴᴅɪ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴇʀ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ɴᴇᴡ-ꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ, ꜱᴛᴀᴄʏ, ᴢᴀᴄᴋ, ᴀɴᴅ ʙʀᴀᴅ ᴅᴇᴄɪᴅᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜱɴᴇᴀᴋ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴇʀ ᴄᴀᴍᴘ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍɪᴅᴅʟᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ʙʏ ʀᴀꜰᴛɪɴɢ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴇᴀʀʙʏ ʀɪᴠᴇʀꜱ. ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ꜱᴘᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴛᴇɴꜱᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ʟᴏꜱᴛ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏᴏᴅꜱ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴏᴜʀ ᴛᴇᴇɴᴀɢᴇʀꜱ ꜱᴛᴜᴍʙʟᴇ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴀ ᴍʏꜱᴛᴇʀɪᴏᴜꜱ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ ᴘᴀʀᴋ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇʟʏ ᴇᴍᴘᴛʏ.

ᴀᴛ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜʀɪʟʟᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀɪᴅᴇꜱ ᴀʟʟ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇᴍꜱᴇʟᴠᴇꜱ, ᴀᴛ ʟᴇᴀꜱᴛ ᴜɴᴛɪʟ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴅɪꜱᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀꜱ. ꜱᴏᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴅɪꜱᴄᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʀᴀᴘᴘᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴋ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ꜰɪɢᴜʀᴇ ɪꜱ ꜱᴛᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡꜱ, ᴘɪᴄᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴏꜰꜰ ᴏɴᴇ ʙʏ ᴏɴᴇ. ᴏɴᴄᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ꜰᴀʟʟꜱ, ᴄʏɴᴅɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪɢʜᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴇꜱᴄᴀᴘᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴋ, ᴀ ᴍᴀꜱᴋᴇᴅ ᴍᴀɴɪᴀᴄ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ɴɪɢʜᴛᴍᴀʀᴇ.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

5 out of 5 stars – for both

Cameron has done it! He is a new favourite author of mine.

I honestly had never read a 80’s slasher horror read before. To be honest I never even realised anything such as this existed within sub genres in horror. Until I took part in the BookTube’s: Bloody Beach Readatlong. Thank goodness for this readalong held by incredible BookTubers because I have now found one of my favourite type of reads within horror.

Kill River and Kill River 2 read exactly as 80’s slasher films. The first half is a slower paced read. Giving the perfect moment to introduce the characters, get a feel for their personalities and what they were all about. The plot was described in such perfect detail. I could really envision the scenes and where the characters where in each moment. It also gave me time to pick and choose my favourite characters and not so favourite.

I found myself even before the creepy moments started working around in my head who I thought was going to be killed first and potentially how they were going to die.

You know….just based on your typical slasher film rules. You know … those rules….If you don’t… than I don’t think you are a true slasher films lover!

Cameron’s description for both the characters and the settings were phenomenal and without being overly wordy. I felt as though I was seeing everything Cyndi and her friends where in the moment, right down to the beautifully landscaped water park decorated with the perfect wildflowers and other designs. Now this may become to hard for some to read when the murder scenes start. They did get extremely gruesome at times, so be sure you have a good strong stomach…. I can’t stress this enough.

These reads are not for everyone. But if you want to experience some of that 80’s slasher film nostalgic feels be sure to pick up both Kill River and its amazing sequel Kill River 2.

“𝕂𝕚𝕝𝕝 ℝ𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕓𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕕, 𝕘𝕠𝕣𝕖, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ‘𝟠𝟘𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕒. 𝕊𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕛𝕠𝕚𝕔𝕖, 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜!”

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Gruesome Book Worm

-Nichole

Fat Camp by James Sabata

𝐅𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏

𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟓, 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐖𝐚šíč𝐮, 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝.𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬; 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐜 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬, 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐭… … 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐞.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

5 out of 5 stars

The slasher horror read with a deep underlining story.

Fat Camp was brilliant.

Phillip had lost so much in his close family life. Decides its time to do better by himself, runs off to camp Wasicu to lose weight. Only to lose much more than what he signed up for. Yet the strength that builds within Phillip is inspiring. He himself is a force to be reckoned with.

The slasher moments within Fat Camp were well done. They reminded me of a true slasher film. Quick, unexpected and shocking. Also not over the top, quiet realistic which only added to the chill factor.

I know the focus for most while reading this book is the murder scenes but I couldn’t help but get pulled right into the character growth as well. Existing relationships that flourished and new relationships launched. All while getting your quench of shocking, gory moments.

Moral of the story with Fat Camp. Don’t mess around with others, be careful how you wrong people. You never know who will decide to get an awful revenge!

Fat Camp was the perfect edition to my summer reads! Thank goodness my son was back from his summer camp long before I read this.

I would highly recommend this read. Sneak it in before our summer is completely gone.

“𝔽𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕞𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣, 𝔽𝕒𝕥 ℂ𝕒𝕞𝕡 𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣, 𝕙𝕦𝕞𝕠𝕣, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕒 𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕓 𝕠𝕗 𝕟𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕒 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕨 𝕦𝕡 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕝𝕪 𝕒𝕗𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕕 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜.”

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Gory Book Worm

-Nichole

Cannibal Nuns From Outer Space! by Duncan P. Bradshaw

The B movie… That went straight to book

“TIME FOR YOUR DOOM, PRIEST!”…

“Seriously, are you sponsored by a company called Doom?…”Do you get a percentage every time you say it?”

𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚊𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚌 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚊𝚔𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑’𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙾𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚊𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚕. 𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚏𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗’𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎.

𝙵𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙵𝚕𝚢𝚗𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚄𝙺, 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚗𝚞𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚜. 𝙶𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚗 𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚖, 𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚓𝚘𝚋 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑’𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢, 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚖𝚒𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.

𝚈𝚎𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚕 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚋𝚊𝚕 𝚗𝚞𝚗𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚜𝚝. 𝙲𝚊𝚗 𝙵𝚕𝚢𝚗𝚗 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚜𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜? 𝙾𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚍𝚢𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚞𝚗’𝚜 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚝?

𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐’𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗, 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖, 𝙵𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙵𝚕𝚢𝚗𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚝.

“The Holy snot of the South.”

5 out of 5 stars

Cannibal Nuns From Outer Space is truly one of a kind.

The nuns are a force to be reckoned with……….“That is one ugly mother…”

Father Flynn is a bad-ass in his own……….“Anyone out of the Old Testament, Beards were very much in vogue back then.”

With all the trash, all the cheese (and I don’t mean cheap ass cheese, I am talking the high end, expensive stinky cheese) and gut wrenching laughs. This is a grade A classy book for anyone’s book shelves. I don’t think I have had so much fun reading something in a very long time. Now this book is not for everyone, but if you have a tremendous sense of humour, you don’t mind a bit of crude content and are up for a little bit of gore splashed with a whole lot of hilarious moments, look no further!… Cannibal Nuns from Outer Space is for you.

Now not only is the guts of the book fan-freaking-tastic but the physical book is glorious! Depending on the edition you get….(may I suggest the Hardcover special edition copy). The book reads just as a B movie. You get the play button, movie previews (which all need to be brought to book), movie posters. Then of course you have a soundtrack and end credits. Now if you go the route I suggested and get the hard cover special edition you also receive alternate endings and a few other little jazzy features.

Find out if Father Flynn saves the day. See if you can spot which Nun’s are good vs evil. Spend some one on one time with Phil De Hole and fall in love with Albie.

So happy that I read Cannibal Nuns from Outer Space with my fellow BookTubers. This has easily become one of my most talked about favourites in my 2019 reading year.

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Fellow Albie Lover

-Nichole

Beds Are For Flowers by R.K. Gold

𝐀 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞-𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬, 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

𝒞𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽. 𝐵𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑜𝓇𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓇, 𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓇𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓁 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓈. 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒯𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝒸𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓈𝑒, 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝒹𝓃’𝓉 𝒹𝒾𝑒, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝓌 𝓌𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓃𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓇𝑜𝒶𝒹 𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐸𝓃𝒹.

𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓁𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐸𝓃𝒹, 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒶𝓈𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝑔𝓊𝒾𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒞𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝒾𝓃 𝑒𝓍𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓂.

𝒞𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒, 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒲𝒶𝓀𝑜𝒷𝒶, 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝑅𝑒𝒹 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇, 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃-𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒯𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈𝒽𝒾𝒻𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹.

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Middle Grade

Genre: Fantasy

5 out of 5 stars

Since Beds Are For Flowers is a middle grade read, I had the joy of getting to read this with my eldest son. We both absolutely loved this read and highly recommend it.

R.K. Gold is a indie author I met through BookTube. He has always been so inspirational and really has a way with words. When I heard he had started a middle grade series I knew I had to get my hands on it.

The middle grade world is absolutely saturated with fantasy. Making it extremely hard for an author to release something unique into the mix. Dare I say R.K. did just that! He amazed me with the world of Ganedyn.

Beds Are For Flowers is a beautiful story, with sensational characters that will take your breath away. The thought of being born into a bland, color-less world where each and everyday you are worried for your loved ones. Knowing, by facing your fears you may be able to set the pieces of the puzzle back together. Changing things for the best out come possible.

We were hooked! Eager to find out if Clarence, Jesse and Wakoba succeeded in their journey.

I often say that indie authors write some incredible gems. I can’t stress enough how important it is to support indie authors. Trust me, you may find your next top favourite read.

Be sure to check out this series by R.K. Gold!

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Colorful Book Worm

-Nichole

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Better You Believe

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NOW!

Sour

𝔹𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕨𝕠 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕘𝕠, 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖.

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𝕄𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕣 𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕥?

𝐉𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞.

𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐭.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞?

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“𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓼 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓯𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝔂𝓽𝓱”

𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘋𝘌𝘈𝘋. 𝘚𝘏𝘌’𝘚 𝘕𝘌𝘟𝘛. 𝘞𝘏𝘖 𝘊𝘈𝘕 𝘚𝘏𝘌 𝘛𝘙𝘜𝘚𝘛?

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𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 & 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 2

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𝐅𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏

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The B movie… That went straight to book

“TIME FOR YOUR DOOM, PRIEST!”…

“Seriously, are you sponsored by a company called Doom?…”Do you get a percentage every time you say it?”

𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐’𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗, 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖, 𝙵𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙵𝚕𝚢𝚗𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚝.

“The Holy snot of the South.”

𝐀 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞-𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬, 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

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𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘋𝘌𝘈𝘋. 𝘚𝘏𝘌’𝘚 𝘕𝘌𝘟𝘛.
𝘞𝘏𝘖 𝘊𝘈𝘕 𝘚𝘏𝘌 𝘛𝘙𝘜𝘚𝘛?